Saratoga Reads!
2024 Reading Season

From December 1 through the 31, submit essays for a chance to be picked as a winning story by Teens4Refugees Director, Sachika Shah.

Beginning on Monday, December 1, the library will be displaying photographic imagery relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We invite everyone to view and learn about this monumental achievement.

Join us as we announce the 2019 Saratoga Reads! selection, and provide an overview of the upcoming season of related events.

Join the library’s reading group, Books & Tea, as we discuss the book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, by the author and speaker of SR!’s 2019 capstone event.

Let’s kick back and talk about The Refugees and how it relates to the 2019 SR! selections.

Featured January through March, the Saratoga Springs Public Library’s historic oral histories relating to Jewish heritage in and around Saratoga will be featured in an online collection.

Life is Short is the library’s monthly short story discussion group. We’ll cover some short stories about immigration this month.

Children in Grades 3-6 are invited to join a monthly club that will explore different cultures! Listen to a story, do an activity or craft, and eat a snack enjoyed by people around the world. The club will meet in the library’s Children’s Room from 6:00PM -6:30PM on the second Tuesday of each month from January through May. Register online, in the Children’s Room, or by calling 518-584-7860, ext. 305.

Poetry Café attendees will have the opportunity to do close readings of poems, as well as discuss and enjoy their sound and sense with others. This season’s poems will center on the experiences of refugees and migrants.

Join the library’s reading group, Books & Tea, as we discuss Go Went Gone, and how it relates to the SR! 2019 book selection.

This month we’ll be meeting to discuss the SR! 2019 selection choice book, Exit West. Come join us, adults of all ages are welcome to attend!

Dr. Ramsammy, a local, will provide insight into his personal journey as a child growing up in poverty-stricken Trinidad through a transformative time where he became a doctor, and is now President of a local college.

The very first filmmakers allowed into a refugee camp attempt to capture and portray the life on the inside for these Syrian refugees.

Partnering with Skidmore for discussions over Refugee with schoolchildren in grades 4-6 of the Saratoga Springs City School District. This is a two-part program. Registration is required.

Join us for a special SaratogaREADS! movie night where we will watch the 1990 film “Avalon,” which follows three generations of a Jewish-Polish family as they try to make a better future in Baltimore.

Partnering with Skidmore for discussions over Refugee with schoolchildren in grades 4-6 of the Saratoga Springs City School District. This is a two-part program. Registration is required.

Better off Read is the library’s new mystery, thriller and crime discussion reading group. This month we’ll be discussing Testimony by Scott Turow.

In this three week workshop, students in grades 4-8 will explore ways to learn about, and document stories of their family history through the generations, including immigration stories.

Children in Grades 3-6 are invited to join a monthly club that will explore different cultures! Listen to a story, do an activity or craft, and eat a snack enjoyed by people around the world. The club will meet in the library’s Children’s Room from 6:00PM -6:30PM on the second Tuesday of each month from January through May. Register online, in the Children’s Room, or by calling 518-584-7860, ext. 305.

THIS IS A SNOW DATE ONLY. Partnering with Skidmore for discussions over The Refugee with schoolchildren in grades 4-6 of the Saratoga Springs City School District. This is a two-part program. Registration is required.

Poetry Café attendees will have the opportunity to do close readings of poems, as well as discuss and enjoy their sound and sense with others. This season’s poems will center on the experiences of refugees and migrants.

Join us for a performance with award winning storytellers Motoko and Eshu.

In this three week workshop, students in grades 4-8 will explore ways to learn about, and document stories of their family history through the generations, including immigration stories.

In collaboration with the Tang Museum, children will learn how photography can be a form of self-expression, creative thinking, and communication. We will compare photos and see how children see their world around them.

Join the library’s reading group, Books & Tea, as we discuss The Book of Unknown Americans, and how it relates to the SR! 2019 book selection.

This month we’ll be discussing the book by comedian and talk-show host Trevor Noah, Born a Crime, and how it relates to the 2019 SR! selection choices.

Come to the Saratoga Farmers’ Market and make a SaratogaREADS! related craft with a Children’s Librarian.

Join English learning students as they share treats from their homelands.

In this three week workshop, students in grades 4-8 will explore ways to learn about, and document stories of their family history through the generations, including immigration stories.

Ever wondered what happens as North Koreans flee to South Korea: the challenges of the escape, the societal differences, and massive change? Join Dr. Joowon Park, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Skidmore College for a talk on this and more.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues.

Children ages 3.5 - 5 years will enjoy stories and a related hands-on craft activity related to the themes of this year’s SartogaREADS! selections.

The Albany, NY based Legal Project has been working with new U.S. residents and immigrants to understand their rights. Learn more or get information for others. For more information on the Legal Project and all that they do (this is only a small aspect of what they are doing), visit their website.

Children in Grades 3-6 are invited to join a monthly club that will explore different cultures! Listen to a story, do an activity or craft, and eat a snack enjoyed by people around the world. The club will meet in the library’s Children’s Room from 6:00PM -6:30PM on the second Tuesday of each month from January through May. Register online, in the Children’s Room, or by calling 518-584-7860, ext. 305.

Poetry Café attendees will have the opportunity to do close readings of poems, as well as discuss and enjoy their sound and sense with others. This season’s poems will center on the experiences of refugees and migrants.

In collaboration with the Tang Museum, children will learn how photography can be a form of self-expression, creative thinking, and communication. We will compare photos and see how children see their world around them.

Join the library’s reading group, Books & Tea, as we discuss The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, and how it relates to the SR! 2019 book selection.

Come to the Saratoga Farmers’ Market and make a SaratogaREADS! related craft with a Children’s Librarian.

Join Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong-American author, filmmaker, public speaker, and natural storyteller, as she navigates her family’s story—and the story of the Hmong people—from imprisonment, their harrowing escape, a refugee camp, and their immigration to Minnesota when Yang was only six years old.

Children in Grades 3-6 are invited to join a monthly club that will explore different cultures! Listen to a story, do an activity or craft, and eat a snack enjoyed by people around the world. The club will meet in the library’s Children’s Room from 6:00PM -6:30PM on the second Tuesday of each month from January through May. Register online, in the Children’s Room, or by calling 518-584-7860, ext. 305.

Children in Grades 3-6 are invited to join a monthly club that will explore different cultures! Listen to a story, do an activity or craft, and eat a snack enjoyed by people around the world. The club will meet in the library’s Children’s Room from 6:00PM -6:30PM on the second Tuesday of each month from January through May. Register online, in the Children’s Room, or by calling 518-584-7860, ext. 305.